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WEEKLY AND MONTHLY WCDC EVENTS
WEEKLY & MONTHLY REPEATING EVENTS
SECOND SATURDAY OF THE MONTH,
11am - 12:45pm
Membership Meeting of the Warren County VA Democratic Committee
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Business meetings are held the second Saturday of every month at 11:00 am. Join us as we work together to organize around our values, recruit candidates for office, and help make our community, state, and country a better place for all.
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Location: Middle of Main Bldg., 213 E. Main St., next to the Daily Grind
FOURTH TUESDAY OF THE MONTH
12pm
The Lunch Bunch​
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470 S. Commerce Avenue
Front Royal, VA
POSTCARD PARTIES will resume prior to the 2020 elections.
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WEDNESDAYS 5p - 6p
The Vigil for Democracy
at the Gazebo on Main Street
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Calling all First Amendment People! Join your friends and neighbors for the Vigil for Democracy, every Wednesday from 12p-1p during the fall and winter (Sep-Apr), or 5p-6p during spring and summer (May-Aug), at the gazebo in Front Royal. Bring your own sign or borrow an extra from someone there. This is what Democracy looks like!
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Learn more about the Vigil for Democracy
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BOOKS AND FILMS
BOOK OF THE MONTH
Please try to source this selection from a bookseller in our community.
JANUARY 2020
I Can't Breathe: A Killing on Bay Street
by Matt Taibbi
2019 Book Selections
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2019 December: A Warning by Anonymous
2019 November: No selection
2018 October: The Immoral Majority by Ben Howe
2018 September: A Lot of People are Saying by Rosenblum & Muirhead
2018 August: American Carnage by Tim Alberta
2018 July: It's Time to Fight Dirty by David Faris
2018 June: Moneyland by Oliver Bullough
2018 May: The Apprentice by Greg Miller
2018 April: Moral Politics by George Lakoff
2018 March: Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire by Kurt Andersen
2018 February: The Fifth Risk by Michael Lewis
2018 January: Factfulness by Hans Rosling
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2018 Book Selections
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2018 Dec/Jan: The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein
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2018 Jan/Feb: Collusion by Luke Harding
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2018 Feb/Mar: Russian Roulette by Michael Isikoff and David Corn
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2018 Mar/Apr: A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies and Leadership by James Comey
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2018 Apr/May: The Age of American Unreason in a Culture of Lies by Susan Jacoby
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2018 May/Jun: Facts and Fears: Hard Truths froma Life in Intelligence by James R. Clapper
2018 Jun/Jul: Democracy in Chains by Nancy McLean
2018 Jul/Aug: Drawdown edited by Paul Hawken
2018 Aug/Sep: Fear by Bob Woodward
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2018 Sep/Oct: Good and Mad by Rebecca Traister
2018 Oct/Nov: Mr. Trump's Wild Ride by Major Garrett:
2017 Book Selections
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2017 January: Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right, by Jane Mayer
2017 February: Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap, by Matt Taibbi
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2017 March: Deer Hunting With Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War, by Joe Bageant
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2017 April: Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis, by J.D. Vance
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2017 May: Men Without Work: America's Invisible Crisis, by Nicholas Eberstadt
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2017 June: The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, by Michelle Alexander
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2017 July: This Fight is Our Fight: The Battle to Save America's Middle Class, by Elizabeth Warren
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2017 August: We Do Our Part: Toward a Fairer and More Equal America, by Charles Peters
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2017 September: Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign, by Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes
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2017 October: Giant of the Senate, by Al Franken
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2017 November: What Happened, by Hillary Rodham Clinton
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2017 December: Democracy in Chains: A Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America, by Nancy MacLean
2019 Film Selections
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2019 December : The Report
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2019 November: No selection
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2019 October: The Biggest Little Farm
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2019 September: American Factory
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2019 August: Dark Money
2019 July: The Devil We Know
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2019 June: Dirty Money
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2019 May: Our Planet
2019 April: Feminists
2019 March: Minding the Gap
2019 February: RBG
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2019 January: The Sentence
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2018 Film Selections
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2018 Dec/Jan : A Plastic Ocean
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2018 Jan/Feb: An Inconvenient Sequel
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2018 Feb/Mar: Dolores
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2018 Mar/Apr: Steel Town Down, by Vice
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2018 Apr/May: Beasts of No Nation
2018 May/Jun: Dream: An American Story
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2018 Jun/Jul: Dr. Feelgood
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2018 Jul/Aug: BlacKKKlansman
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2018 Aug/Sep: The Age of Consequences
2018 Sep/Oct: The Power of Nightmares
2018 Oct/Nov: The Staircase
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2017 Film Selections
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2017 Jan/Feb: The Boys of Baraka, by Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady
2017 Feb/Mar: The Brainwashing of my Dad, by Jen Senko
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2017 Mar/Apr: Sicko, by Michael Moore
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2017 Apr/May: Before the Flood, National Geographic
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2017 May/Jun: Get Me Roger Stone, by Dylan Bank, Daniel DiMauro and Morgan Pehme
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2017 Jun/Jul: Born into Brothels, by Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman
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2017 Jul/Aug - Encore: Born into Brothels, by Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman
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2017 Aug/Sep: Citizen Koch, by Carl Deal and Tia Lessin
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2017 Sep/Oct: 13th, by Ava DuVernay
2017 Oct/Nov: Accidental Courtesy, by Laurie Harris and Roberto AlCantara
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2017 Nov/Dec: First Daughter and the Blacksnake by Keri Pickett